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posted 07-05-2019 03:49 PM
Nobody in Kentucky football history has been on the field for more offensive plays than the late Jared Lorenzen. For 1,793 snaps over his four seasons, Lorenzen took the field and ran the UK offense, also setting the school record for most offensive plays in a season in 2000, when he was on the field for 635.
Despite playing his last game for the Wildcats in 2003, Lorenzen’s name still shows up prominently in the record books for both UK football and the Southeastern Conference.
The quarterback’s legacy as the fun-loving “Hefty Lefty” has been celebrated both locally and nationally this week after the Kentucky native’s death Wednesday at age 38. His highlight reel is evidence of the athletic gifts the strong-armed QB brought to the field at UK from 2000 through 2003. But the record book, though dotted with only 15 wins over his four seasons, is lasting proof of a college career of rare achievement all these years later.
▪ One of Lorenzen’s most notable UK records is for most passing yards in a game, with 528 in UK’s 34-30 loss to Georgia in 2000, a game he almost missed because of a thumb injury suffered in practice that week. Afterward, Georgia Coach Jim Donnan was asked if he thought that UK might have made up the injury.
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